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by Laurence “Lolo” Cornet

All the photographs feautured in this article are the property of Annie G. Pertan.

In November 2012, Recep Tayyip Erdogan pronounced outra- An independent director inspired by local history, on their side, finally destroyed it once in power ged remarks on Magnificent Century (Muhtesem Yüzyıl), a TV Refiğ kept away from the criticisms of the Turkish for the official reason that it belittled Mustafa show depicting the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, focusing so-called intellectuals who only praised occiden- Kemal’s (Ataturk) role during the war of Indepen- on his conquests, of course, but mostly on his controversial tal values and pursued his project despite the dance by focusing on other actors of this major Harem life. The Prime Minister officially announced his disappro- media’s harsh criticism. historical event such as Circassian leader Çer- val, calling the show an insult to Turkey’s history and ancestors. kez Ethem. Screenings have continued despite the government’s virulent The Tired Soldier was based on a novel by Ke- attacks against the TV channel and the series’s creators. Thirty mal Tahir, a friend of Refig’s and a Marxist who Petran’s photographs offer an insider’s view on years earlier, The Tired Soldier (Yorgun Savasci), a movie about spent most of his youth in jail for his ideas that the controversial film that to this day remains the Turkish War of Independence directed by Halit Refiğ for the strongly opposed Western foreign policy. Such largely unknown. They were turned into a photo TV channel TRT, was the subject of a harsher censorship: nega- a movie had a potential to create a sensation roman that was the only trace of the movie un- tives were burned and the film never released. All that remains worldwide, especially since it was shot between til a copy of it was rediscovered. They are the of this 8 hour film is a printed and non-reproducible copy and 1978 and 1980, a dry phase in Turkey for cine- testimonies of an art crime that has never been a few dozens of stills taken by Ersin Pertan. Browsing through ma production and a period of extreme political claimed. They give a sense of Refiğ’s determina- Pertan’s photos is like diving into the world of Halit Refiğ. They uncertainty that led to the September 12th 1980 tion as well as of his directing ideas. 7 do justice to his firm, professionnal exigence and spread the Coup: some days, as many as 20 people were visually epic atmosphere he distilled in his film despite the gene- killed, be it by “leftists” or “rightists”. The army, One can feel the earth tremble and the flags ral opposition he endured. who first supported the movie to keep people shudder in battle scenes, as well as grasp the GO FETCH! A DOG’S LIFE

Street photographer: Fikri Barut

by Berge Arabian

I am the photographer here at Eminonu. My name is Fikri Barut. I have been in Istanbul since 1974. I am originally from Samsun in the Black Sea area. I did not become a photographer right away. I am now in my fifties but when I first came to Istanbul, I was a young man and like many of the young who had moved in from the provinces, I found myself a job in a sock factory. My brother was here already and he was working the streets photographing tourists and visitors. He encouraged me to become a street photographer like himself. Actually it turned out to be better than the factory job. tension of war in the formal and respectful sa- lutes. It is also an occasion to rediscover some You know, in those days not everyone had a came- icons of Turkish cinema such as Can Gürzap, in ra. So people like me were in demand. It was not the role of Mustafa Kemal, in the early years of his like nowadays. Like everything, cheap and availa- career. ble technology has ruined our trade: everyone has a camera or a phone to take photos with now. Still, This specific collection ofYorgun Savasci set there are the few who come to touristic sites unpre- photographs is only a small part of an irreplace- pared, so we have to take their photos as souvenir able documentation of Turkish cinema. A director pieces to keep after they go back home. Also, I think a street photo taken just like the old days has a taste and a founding member of the Association of Film of nostalgia and there are a few people still who have Directors, Writers and Composers, Ersin Pertan a sense of nostalgia. So they like their photo taken by immersed himself in the cinema world as a set someone like me. I think you are one of those people. photographer and spent his life capturing this bustling scene with the camera he never forgot I work with a Pentax now but originally I started with to bring along with him to shootings and other a Polaroid and then switched to a German Retina dinners. His archives include a myriad of pho- which I used for 13 years. So I have been using the tographs that draw an intimate and exhaustive Pentax for almost 25 years. I shoot and then I do history of Turkish cinema unfolding over 40 years. my printing on a Cannon printer. It is practical. At the price I charge for a print, I cover my costs and get to keep a bit of money. I work most days except Tuesdays.

A publishing community formed by photo- 8 My brother also still works. He is on the other side of graphers who believe in creating high-quali- the bridge. I do not think we will do this trade forever ty books, empowering artistic and editorial because there are fewer and fewer customers. But decisions to ourselves. Red Hook Editions is there is still something good about this trade even a new model: photographers will take on though there are not many of us left: I meet all kinds many responsibilities, from funding to ad- of people from all over the country and I never see vertising to distribution, but will crucial- them again but I guess the photographs I take of ly retain control and ownership. With our them, remain... collective knowledge and wide networks, we help photographers design, publish, and distribute their own books, and make money. The Red Hook Editions community will meet 9 several times a year in , with advi- sers and experts in relevant fields, to inten- sively workshop labors of love into finished Top image: Fikri Barut by Berge Arabian form between the covers of beautiful books. www.redhookeditions.com Bottom image: Berge Arabian by Fikri Barut 11 DOG YEARS Studio Jonker by Arjen Zwart

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I am Curious (Yellow), directed by Vilgot Sjöman, 1967 DOGMA more disturbing issue. Since the Egyptians, and even The scissors in the head before, it was commonplace to censor history. The victors carved their pictorial history into stone. And by during modern times Soviet censors in the Stalin era certainly tried to erase out of favor personages from historical propaganda. As a former curator for a new international photo festival, two years running, I had to deal with an issue I never dealt with before: censorship. It reminded me I had invited an American photographer, on the of a time, not too long ago, when I worked in a big recommendation of a friend, to show Jewish Holo- museum and guarded a Gustave Courbet caust portraits that had hand written stories of their exhibition which contained the infamous Origin of the experiences on the photographs. During one of the the World painting. It was separated from the rest last meetings about the festival content with the city of the exhibition by a black curtain with a warning municipality it was related to me indirectly that we about its sexual content. There were certainly nudes should exclude this show. It was the only exhibition everywhere in the museum, statutes, other paintings, that was to be cut out from the entire festival. At first but this one, on loan to the museum, was special. I accepted this because the photographer had many I was like a Salinger anti hero of the catcher of the other projects that could be shown. I emailed the eyes! making sure children stayed safely out of view photographer and asked him for another series and of the canvas. The painting had been hidden from he agreed. But after some days this began to irritate public view for more than 100 years. both of us independently and then we both discus- And so many years ago, in what now seems a former sed this over emails. We agreed that this was the life, I must have been around eight, I remember sit- opposite of what an international photography festival ting in a movie theater seeing a Jane Fonda flick cal- should be doing. It should be promoting ideas and led Barbarella, where I pretended to drop something experiences of the other, not hiding or forbidding when Jane’s bust was flashed on the big screen. I them. I informed a major foreign contributor to the somehow intuited that I was not mature enough to festival who was outraged by this exclusion and after see that. Now, fast forward a decade some phone calls to the municipality the show was or more to a city college media class where I sat in re-included into the festival, but put in a less conspi- an amphitheater full of students to see I am curious cuous spot. It was a small victory. yellow, a banned 1968 film that went to the U.S. Su- preme Court, and how even then I was squeamish to see sex on the screen. This was before the Internet. Nowadays it’s too difficult to keep such information secret. Perhaps 100 years ago it was easier to censor but today it’s almost impossible. There are too many Fast forward to just two years ago, during the first watchdogs. Yet countries still try to block servers. A festival in Bursa, the curators (me included) used the parent should cover the eyes of their children to our Scissor in the Head and didn’t exhibit certain Ken profane and violent natures, until they are ready. But Schles, and other photos, which contained nudity. societies should not diminish the other for the sake of The venue was a public building and it seemed the their pride and national identity but should celebrate careful thing to do. In hindsight I would have pre- diversity. The danger lies when self-censorship turns ferred to put up a sign warning about the nudity. A to public censorship making the scissors bigger and child may not be ready for this and sometimes even a bigger until it cuts into our shared histories. society is not ready. Certain photos containing Chri- stian crosses, from a series on Tarlabashi (an Istan- bul neighborhood going through immense transition) that were exhibited in the Bursa Hans (marketplaces) were covered by the Turkish flag by some shop- owners. CENSORED The Genç Foto Initiative exhibition, Bursa 2012, 17 shown in a public government building, did a smart thing by turning their photos with questionable content around to the blank side, thus exposing the Top-left image: Ken Schles-Invisible City; issue of censorship creating a dialogue. Those blank Top right images: Stalin pictures; photos were available on their website for viewing. Center-left images: Yusuf Sevinçli-Good Dog; But there was a different kind of censorship that Center-right image: Arjen Zwart-X-ray skull; lurked like a spectre even before the 2nd festival Bottom-left image: Jeffrey Wolin-Written In Memory; began; one of historical identity, which was a much Bottom-right image: Genç Foto Initiative exhibition wall.

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18 Orhan Cem Cetin Coskun Asar Turkish Foto Roman, circa 1970, redubbed click! for youandnomore click click straight. Itwillbethe“clink” that thehorizonisreally kenly tiltedtheframeand logize andsaythatyoumista- you snappedthatpicture. Apo- ped andwere fallingwhen an accidentandthatyoutrip- I adviseyoutotellthemitwas and right. theNeo-documentalists,andvariousphoto-fascistsfromthe Aperturists, left,center, wereAssembled intheclosedcourt Mega-pixelists,Tele-photoists, Photo-shoppists, ...our photo philosophy needstochange! stions, notanswers... frames inmagazines.Images thatposedque- unsharp pictures onmuseumwallsandtilted mingled withforeign photographers.I’veseen Dear friends,I’vecomeback from abroad. I’ve what hesays. Olympus, butthere ismuchtruthin intoxicated from theOraclesonmount Look atmyclient.Hemayhavegotten Photography crosses borders withoutvisasorpassports. Dear Jury, You cannolongercensorwhatthreatens you. camera andscarf! They tookawayhis Fear grippedourhero. feel. should notbewhatweseebut zon isnotalwaysstraight.Aphotograph But Iknowandyouthatthehori- There isaworldbeyondthe horizon. Perspective isanillusion. could neverbereached and shouldn’t be. straight. Andaccording to metaphysicsahorizon According tothelawsofphysics nothingcanbe We mustthinkoutsidethe box! We needtoread, weneedcinema. deep darkblackseatogether. Let there belight!Ifnotwewillallsinkintothe photography world. horizon thenwe willfalloff intotheabyss ofthe If thetruthgetsoutthatanyone cantiltthe Save yourbatteries.sliceofcake! are theF.F.F.F! Saveyourstatus.positions. We can’t haveforeigners influencingourtraditions. We model. Theyaretoblinduswithaflashinourface. trying the fastestaperture,longestlens,andlatestdigital books. There are onlythree thingsyouneedtoseek: listic ForumofFotoFascists).There isnoreason tobuy Dear Jury, Igreet youastheheadofF.F.F.F. (Feuda- become dark. will causeoursensorstoshutdownandimages If welistentohimandshootintothesunagreat flare say. It’s ourdutytomaketheaccusedsignandrepent. Cover youreyesandopenearstowhatIhave need themostexpensivecameratodoso. Photography unlockstheimaginationandonedoesn’t Only man’s imaginationcantakeusbeyond. 21 DOG DAY AFTERNOON The 10 (oh, so difficult to choose, why do you make me And quickly after come these 25: Time Enough at Last choose?): Photography: A Short Critical History, Beaumont Newhall - Formative to the creation of my book, A New History of by Ken Schles 1. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts, August . Photography: The World Outside and the Pictures In Our Heads. I love it partially because it is such a wonderful mess. The first critical history of photography in the English language ///Facies Dolorosa, H. Killian - What a Nazi era German 2. New York is Good and Good For You, William Klein. doctor’s 19th C. idea of science wrought? Deeply affecting /// The Movement, , et al. (Conversations with The world has ended. Was it a bomb? An ? No I always said to friends that I was a bigger fan of Frank, matter, I am alone - alive but alone. There seems to be the Dead, The Destruction Of Lower Manhattan, The Bikers, Photo Film are all contenders here too) /// Praha Panora- but then again I always come back to this book. Why do I - and there’s the great compilation from the late 1950’s, Fotografika, which I also just got. I also food enough. What do we have here …are they the Dead matická, Josef Sudek have to choose? Why do you make me? like his book on the composer Leos Janácek’s home and village, Hukvaldy. A modest book, but still beautiful /// Atlas, Sea Scrolls or the Book of Kells? Principia Mathematica? Gerhard Richter - Interesting the huge difference between the 1st 1989 edition and the D.A. P. 1997 edition found in Perhaps the Collected Works of ? No, they 3. Looking in, - Sarah Greenough’s Parr/Bader. Somehow it says something about ordering the world, something not so unlike this list. Bring some books . I have the 1970’s are my books, my beloved photobooks. expanded edition of The together and you have something other, something more than the sum of its parts /// Aperture edition, bought remaindered at Strand. I missed A Way of Seeing, Helen Levitt, /// /// - I like the original with its fewer pictures and its ar- the recent Steidl edition, which is, in my opinion (now, alas, James Agee Naked City, Weegee Subway, Bruce Davidson I never allocated enough time to look at you my darlings. chaic 1980’s bad color printing /// /// the only opinion), proportioned a bit better proportioned, Love On The Left Bank, Ed van der Elsken Vietnam Inc., Philip Jones Griffiths - Although his book Agent Orange is perhaps, for me, is both more powerful and more difficult, a hard call. Harder to live I didn’t spend as much time with you as I would’ve liked: but this truck of a book has everything. too many distractions; too many obligations; too many with Agent Orange /// Falkland Road, /// Mobile Homes, Rudy Burckardt - a peripatetic man from interruptions. But now I have time. I have all the time in the 4. ‘71-NY, Daido Moriyama. The rhythm, the blacks, the , NY /// Nicaragua, /// Common Sense, (Although the Martin Parr retrospective by world for you, my precious ones. I will save you. I will make grain, the alienation, New York in 1971! Val Williams really reminds me how good he can really be. Let me switch) /// Like A One-Eyed Cat, /// a list. Which do I want to remember? Who shall I keep? The Animals, - Wish I had Women Are Beautiful or Public Relations. The Animals will have to do, but I 5. The Work of Atget. A 4-volume set - but I’m short 2 also like Figments From The Real World, ’s posthumous edit of Winogrands work, do you remember that volumes! Maria Morris Hambourg and John Szarkowski. one? I have that one too /// Bus Odyssey, Tom Wood - although I wish I had All Zones, Off Peak. Really like his Looking For years I travelled the U.S. as an assignment photo- For Love as well /// A Loud Song, Danny Seymour /// ’s Guide, John Szarkowski /// In The Ameri- grapher. I shot 6 covers of Newsweek. 6. Telex Iran, Gilles Peress. I cut my teeth on this book can West, - which is not to say Evidence 1944 or Nothing Personal or Portraits are nothing to sneeze at I was the first photographer assigned by — with the man. An important book visually, structurally and /// Niagara, - I was a little late coming to his work, maybe because everyone jumped so quickly, but this one before Avedon, before Tina Brown. I gathered photobooks for me personally. But maybe his book The Silence is more shines for me and it was so nice to trade books with him /// Gypsies, Joseph Kouldelka - The Steidl edition blows the from bins and dusty shops. All before photobooks were appropriate given my situation. And I’ll always like the fact Aperture edition away /// Suzuki Kiyoshi: Hundred Steps and Thousand Stories - Whoever thought a book so small recognized as primary expressions of an artist’s work. I that (as this is something Susan Meiselas told me) the could be so rich and beautiful - and so thick /// La France De Profil, Paul Strand - Have you ever seen this heliogravure design of The Silence was based upon my book Invisible was able to pick-up great books at used bookstores, so- book? It was so beautifully designed and printed. The pictures are mostly understated with a couple of standouts. But City. metimes for next to nothing. let’s look at it as a book. A book qua book /// Mike Disfarmer (published by Twin Palms). 7. Shadow of Light, Bill Brandt. I love his work and My photobook obsession started as a teenager when I always had. This is an old compilation of his work, my first OK. I cannot stop. 15 more of newer vintage that I think are special for one reason or another: /// worked at the Strand bookstore in New York City, one of book of his, and somehow it feels truer to him than the 2000 Light Years From Home, Pietro Mattioli Riley and his story, Me and my outrage. You and us, Monica Haller /// Redheaded Peckerwood, Christian Patterson /// Redwood Saw, Richard Rothman /// The Present, Paul Graham the largest used bookstores in the world. (I started working newer and larger coffee table book compilations. Great, as a compilation goes, but oh, to get my hands on his /// Golden Gate, Richard Misrach (the huge beautiful new Aperture monster) /// Quatorze Julliet, van der Keuken (a there a week after Patti Smith had left. She worked in the wonderful invention of a book by Wilhem van Zoetendaal) /// Soho, Anders Petersen /// Oberflächen, Tiefen, Thomas Social Sciences department, damn!) I remember when Perspective of Nudes or The English At Home or A Night In London or some other of his books that work as double Ruff /// A New American Photograph, Doug Rickard - The White Press edition (it’s all I have) /// One Tree, Machiel Mary Ellen Mark’s Falkland Road came in. All the drag entendres. Botman /// A Series of Disappointments, Stephen Gill /// Violentology, Stephen Ferry /// Sommerherz, Thekla queens that worked there would sneak off, one by one and Ehling /// Wonderland, Jason Eskenazi. two by two, and go into a dark corner behind boxes in the 8. What We Bought, The New World, Our Lives And What would the world be if the fires didn’t storage stacks. They’d “ooh” and “ahh” all over it. They’d Our Children and No Small Journeys by Robert Adams. burn the library at Alexandria? What might say, “Oh my look! Are those prostitutes trannies? Who are These are also good contenders in my collection. For me, we intuit from other those lost imaginings they? O.M.G!” After they finished pawing it ended up in my Adams’ work is in a category by itself, much more “hu- of the world? What if conquering Spaniards collection. I saved for Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts by man” and approachable than the formal rigor of some of had not destroyed the great books of the Incas? We pine for things lost, and we so August Sander - the German Schirmer Mosel edition (the the New Topographics photographers like Lewis Baltz. His thinking clearly informs his subject. His focus informs the easily ignore and toss away relics we easily English edition was sold out). It was a real stretch for me photographs he makes. move on from. at the time: nearly a week’s salary. And still I can’t read the damn thing! When I interned at the Robert Freidus Gallery 9. ’ Many Are Called. In a quirky way I like And do I get to bring my books, the ones I was given a signed copy of Lee Friedlander’s Flowers this book a little more than the American Photographs I made? They are so full of memories. My from the gallery director, Janet Borden. That’s where I met (of which I have several editions, including the first), but memories ...Invisible City, The Geometry of Larry Clark and got to hang prints that Lee Friedlander I have to admit it’s a tough choice. Maybe it’s the way Innocence, A New History of Photography: made from E.J. Belloq. You know the pictures - the Storyvil- I got the book, maybe because Many Are Called is so The World Outside and the Pictures In Our le Portraits – the ones of the prostitutes with scratched out New York-esque, so laser focused on it’s subject, maybe Heads, Oculus and a new one …Night Walk because it’s so voyeuristically about a time that’s gone - they contain my memories, my thoughts: faces. Friedlander bought the negatives in a flea market in forever. But I recently got a somewhat looked over Walker My past. . Can you believe it? My book practice started Evans masterpiece: The Lost Work, put out by Arena some a couple of years later while working for Gilles Peress. years back: a beautifully sequenced, beautifully printed And what of my children? Have they not It was around the time he published Telex Iran. Not long lost gem itself. 22 survived this conflagration? afterwards I began my book Invisible City. 10. New York Is, Robert Frank. Here is another New York Now, with no cities, what’ll become of me? What’ll become wonder. This, the rarest Robert Frank that will never be of my books? And what of all the great photobooks I don’t reprinted (so says Frank’s lawyer and one of the greatest 1 free “The Americans List” photobook collectors I know). publi- have? What about Christian Boltanski? Wil I remember the by Jason Eskenazi shed it and sent it out as a thank-you to the newspaper’s - in Turkish or English - beauty of the things I can no longer possess? But I still advertisers (similar to Zero Mostel Reads A Book). In it you have my photobook collection - faulty and full of holes that with this coupon! see images Frank made to be used as ads for the New @ Espas bookstore - Istanbul it is. Now there’s some dog food for you! York Times, all shot around the same time that he made Here, I’ll go through them one, by one. I’ll order them and The Americans, and believe me, some of the images are take care of them. Until they turn to dust. Or I do. Until my just as good. It also has cameo appearances of his son bones are pulverized to ash, like the untold numbers that and daughter and Rudy Burckhardt and family on an came before me. outing in Central Park.as good. It also has cameo appea- rances of his son and daughter and Rudy Burckhardt and family on an outing in Central Park. DOG TRACKS 24 26

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34 DOG BONES RABIES SHOTS Alone together by Laura De Marco

This is the story of a dog who boarded the plane alone and wanted only to share his life with had a long turbulent journey its human companion but had withouth his beloved friend. not been able to, and is now alone, wandering around cities’ It was then that Pippo’s quest borders, somewhere in the Italic started: a lone journey running peninsula. The local people of from city to city looking for other an ancient city recenlty passed fellow dogs who had experien- by the dog have started calling ced the same injustice: being it “Pippo” and we’ll keep this separated from their lifetime name. friends because of short-sighted human rules that do not allow Pippo’s best human friend was freedom of movement for peo- a photographer who at a certain ple with pet companions. Pippo point in his life had to come to soon met several dogs with simi- terms with an imminent departu- lar stories and he finally learned re to a far and difficult to reach the lesson: even if we have all country across the ocean. We’ll our papers in order, even if we call him Marcello. We know are immunized from life’s rubs that Marcello tried everything through “rabies shots”... there he could to put Pippo’s papers are no sufficient protections and in order for traveling with him: precautions to deal with daily but he couldn’t imagine that the battles against injustices and international rules for traveling intolerances. But, at the same with pets were so strict. Their time, there will always be frien- travel odyssey started at the ds, “masters”, ready to fight for vet: clinical examinations, rabies their four-legged shots, health certificates, weight companions. Their loss diets for fitting under the stories may have plane seat. And then came the happy or sad day when Pippo’s passport had endings but it will finally been issued and stamped be always worth 33 and everything then had see- fighting for. med to be in order. Pippo’s story is When they arrived at the airport, meant to awa- ready for their new destination, ken people’s something went terribly wrong. awareness to At the boarding counter the ai- this problem, rline agents said Pippo couldn’t in the hope fly: “the dog is too big, it has to that some go with the checked baggage.” changes will Marcello despaired because he be made soon. And hope- could not bear to put his com- fully, in the near future, Pippo panion with the luggage where and Marcello will be reunited. he heard that horrible things could happen to pets. Pippo In the meantime if you see a sensed how important it was for pack of dogs don’t be afraid, Some recent shots of Pippo taken by his friend to leave and made a they probably aren’t feral, but an unknown photographer. Unkown ruins, Italy. fateful decision for the both of have just banded together in them: he’d run away, as fast as search of their lost and lonely he could, never turning back, human companions who know hoping his master would under- their true names. stand. And so he did. Marcello

32 MAN’S BEST FRIEND PAPER TRAINED excerpt from Wikipedia He [Hitler] has bought himself a young dog called “Blondi” which is the apple of his eye. It was touching listening to him say that he enjoyed walking with this dog so much, because only with it could he be sure that [his companion] would not start talking about the war or politics. […] At the moment the dog is the only living thing that is constantly with him. At night it sleeps at the foot of his bed, it is allowed into his sleeping compartment in the special train and enjoys a number of privileges….that no human would ever dare to claim. From Goebbels’ Diary, 30 May 1942 Blondi was ’s German Shepherd dog, Not long after, during the course of April 29, 1945, given to him as a gift in 1941 by . As Hitler learned of the death of his ally Hitler’s accomplice, Blondi played a role in Nazi pro- who had been executed by Italian partisans. This, paganda, contributing to draw a portrait of Hitler as along with the fact that the Soviet Army was closing in an animal lover. Images circulated of the two of them. on his location, led Hitler to strengthen his resolve not Being associated to Hitler, dogs like Blondi were to allow himself or his wife to be captured. That after- coveted as “Germanischer noon, Hitler expressed doubts Urhund” for their similarity about the cyanide capsules he with the wolf, and grew very had received through Heinrich fashionable during the Third Himmler’s SS and ordered Reich. Dr. to test the capsules’ potency on Blon- The fondness Hitler had for di. The dog died and Hitler Blondi was known by everyo- was inconsolable. His nurse, ne: he kept the dog by his Erna Flegel, said in 2005 that side as often as possible and Blondi’s death had affected even allowed her to sleep in the people in more

his bedroom. That priviledge 34 than ’s suicide. aroused Eva Braun’s jealousy who, according to Hitler’s After the battle in en- secretary , hated ded, the remains of Hitler, Blondi and was known to kick Braun, and two dogs were her under the dining table. discovered in a shell crater by Hitler and Blondi were inse- a unit of SMERSH, the Soviet parable and the dog even sta- counter-intelligence agency. yed with Hitler after he moved The dog (thought to be Blon- to the Führerbunker located di) was exhumed and photo- underneath the garden of the graphed by the Soviets as a on January legitimate player of the Nazi 16,1945. era.

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